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Uber Eats now lets you order from two nearby stores at the same time

October 11, 2023
You no longer have to fight with loved ones about what to eat for dinner tonight. Uber Eats announced a multi-store ordering feature that enables diners to purchase items from two restaurants in a single order. The best part is there’s no additional delivery fee. Previously, Uber Eats would only bundle an order with items […]

Astra Space weighs up selling parts of its business as it looks for cash

October 11, 2023
As Astra Space continues to search for a lifeline to avoid bankruptcy, the company is reportedly weighing up selling a 51% stake in its in-space propulsion business or selling other parts of the business, like equipment, Bloomberg reported last night. Astra would seek to value that business at more than $100 million, should it sell […]

Why Medium is opting out of AI

October 11, 2023
Medium has gone through a number of versions over the years, but what has been a steady focus in Medium’s life in recent years has been its subscription business.

Peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace Pickle picks up $8 million

October 11, 2023
New York-based peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace Pickle, which lets users earn passive income from their closets, is readying an expansion with the close of an $8 million seed round. The company, which was run by just its two co-founders, CEO Brian McMahon and COO Julia O’Mara, up until June, is now planning to expand into […]

Backed by A16z, Relay races to market with Zapier in its crosshairs

October 11, 2023
A new automation startup is setting out to eat Zapier’s lunch, formally launching to the public today after an extended period in beta. Relay, as the company is called, touts itself as a workflow automation platform that helps people tackle mundane, repetitive tasks, going “beyond triggers and actions” popularized by similar rules-based platforms such as […]

Aampe aims to personalize app marketing with algorithms

October 11, 2023
Aampe, a marketing automation platform for mobile apps, recently closed a $7.5 million funding round led by Matrix India and Peak XV, the company announced last week. Bringing Aampe’s total raised to $9.3 million, the new cash will support product development and growing Aampe’s go-to-market teams, co-founder and CEO Paul Meinshausen says. “Existing conventional customer […]

Video editing startup Captions launches a dubbing app with support for 28 languages

October 11, 2023
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 different languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports several languages including French, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and more. The app even lets users translate videos into Texas slang, Gen Z, pirate, […]